Tag: Demonstration
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Bil’in organizer sentenced to 18 months
21 October 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a protest leader from Bil’in, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Military Court of Appeals, for his involvement in organizing demonstrations. The decision dramatically aggravates the one-year sentence originally imposed in the first instance. Judge Lieutenant Colonel Benisho of the Military Court…
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Weekly demonstrations: children cry as cops clash with clowns in Al Ma’asara
1 and 2 October 2010 | ISM Media Al Ma’asara On Friday afternoon, around 50 protesters, including some 10 international and Israeli activists, gathered in the village of Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, to demonstrate against the theft of village land by the Gush Etzion settlement block. The protest was also a commemoration of both International Peace…
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Action Alert: We stand with Abdallah Abu Rahmah
Jewish Voice for Peace 4 October 2010 Seized in the night. Tortured. Held without trial, then tried in a military court where you have no rights; convicted on the coerced confessions of minors, you are facing a sentence of years in prison. All for organizing peaceful protests against the theft of your land and asserting…
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Three protests in Gaza: Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian man, leaving him in critical condition
A 20-year-old Palestinian man, Sliman Abu Hanza, is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in the abdomen with a ‘dum dum’ bullet at a demonstration in Al-Faraheen, Khan Younis, on Sunday. The injury was inflicted during one of three non-violent demonstrations which took place on Sunday; in Beit Hanoun, Maghazi and Faraheen…
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Weekly protests continue across Palestine
20 September 2010 | ISM Media Arrests, low-flying tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets: reports from weekly demonstrations in Bil`in, Ni`lin, An-Nabi Saleh, Al-Ma`sara, Beit Ummar and Hebron.